The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-10-20
THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
interesting Items Briefly. cbronicIed
For Our Readers.

East st. Louis decided to make formal
demand on the operators for an advance
of !219 cents ton for digging.
The Indian reservation trouble at Pipe
stone was settled by the white settlers
agreeing to be moved. They also sign an
agreement to stay off the reservation.
A fearful epidemic of typoid fever is
raging at Iron Mountain, Mich. There
are over 100 people down with the dis
ease, and from one to seven deaths daily.
The last spike was driven in the Mon
tana extension Of the Manitoba Saturd ay
at Great Falls. The $50 miles of this line
were graded and tracked In six months,
a record unparalleled.
There were two more deaths from chol-
era off Swinburne island Saturday night
among the Alesia's passengers. This
brings the total deaths from cholera up
| to date to twenty-eight since the Alesia
left Mediterranean ports. ,
j. c. Baird & Co.'S bank at st. Charles,
Ill, was robbed of $40, 900, the safe being
blown open with dynamite. j..
Anarchist Parsons has again written
the governor of Illinois that he will not
accept a communication of sentence. 70
The farmers elevator at Egan, Oak.
claim they are unable to get cars, and for
that reason viii be compelled to stop buy
ing wheat. ~ '0 80 '.
Twenty 81, 400 clerks are to be re-
moved from the New York custom house
for failure in two separate civil service
examinations for promotions. ..7srv
Jesse Lee Hall, Indian agent at the XII,
owa Commanche and Wichita agencies,
is defaulter to the extent OF nearly $50,
600 in government and indian funds.
Rev. Charles A. Barry, Of wolver-,
hampton, Eng, preached in Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, Sunday. He made a
very good impression, and may possibly
be Mr.. Beecher's successor. -. !
The Union Coal company, of Shamokip,
Penn, are removing from their mines ali
persons unable to speak and understand
English. Inability to speak the English
language on the part of the employees
often causes serious accidents. !
A convention Of postmasters Of the
fourth class is to be held at Eau Claire,
Wis, Nov. g. 1t viii be composed Of the
postmasters of that congressional district,
and the object is to lay before congress q
protest against the discrimination Of post
offices of that class. ,.----
The brick crop of Chicago for the sea.
son of 1887 amounts to 392, 900, 900.
Sheriff Stevens of Clinton, Me-, has
been arrested for III; ustifable murder.
Gov. Bodwell, Of Maine, says enforcing
prohibition is the biggest job he ever
undertook. !
The people of Washington are anxious,
to have the presidential conventions of
next year held in That city.
A Missouri man named Keyler writes
Sheriff Matson of Cook county, Illinois,
requesting the pleasure of hanging the
anarchists. - y.
A Vermont Yankee has discovered a
process by which heavy charges of dyna-
mite may be fired from ordinary guns in
ordinary shells. Experiments at Burling.
ton were in every way satisfactory.
A colored teacher who went from Maine
to teach a colored school in Aberdeen,
Miss, was warned by the county super,
intendent to leave the country. He obeyedl
the injunction just in time to escape the,
vigilantes.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
for the second week in October were:
Freight, $249, 500; passenger, $S3, 952; mis-
cellaneous, $40, 800; total, $350.550
Co,,+ pIoo,, hos t.,.,rra,,h.a a.,
for Ieitnng that Con Rptisr hes hoor!
secured to take the case of the anar-
chists before the United States supreme
court. .. r'i.'.....'1 tts 5af 81. !
A Northern Pacific stock train was de-
rallied aft Fr;dlev near DAnota and tho
engine and ten cars were ditched, block
ing the track for ten hours Quite a
number of cattle were killed, and the
engineer, fireman and two stockn1en sefS
iously injured. r.sal 1sg 8 glas r.. |
The Sheboypan Manufacturing COM
pany, of Sheboygan, Mich, thS largest
chair mandatory in the state has been
closed by the sheriff on executions TO the
amount of $40, 900. O36c6rs q the com,
pany say that all dehfS viii bs paid, and
the works be ID operation in b NV daySM
Caleb w. West, aovernor of Utah, in,
his annual report to. The secrstarf .m the
interior, estimates the Population at 200,
600, and the assessed Valuation of pfobsI
erty at $25, $50, 00o. Il The agri0lltdraF
and cattle interests are in foufishing
condition. The report, which is very
long, shows Utah to be territory Of
great resources. a'
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81 spenu I.Ie., x,ooo IL, p,ospe.ns
l G, wafer anu puilalng q wen, tne Guy OIL
onhooh, L., mas aoanaoheo INC "ork.
A train OF eighteen cars OF choice
Montana cattle was sold at the Chicago
STOCK yards for $40 per iVo pounds.
for .sranpers. ~ -
The fight against prohibition seems tn
be gaining ground in Iowa. It is clear
at any rate from their activity that the
prohibitionists are somewhat scared BY
the course the campaign is taking.
The walls of the parochial school, house,
which is being built in New York in con-
nection with the Church of Our Lady Of